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The Best Episodes of Brain Games

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The Best Episodes of Brain Games

Get ready to have your mind messed with! "Brain Games" is a groundbreaking series that uses interactive experiments, misdirection and tricks to demonstrate how our...

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  1. Background image for Power of Persuasion
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Power of Persuasion

    S2:E5

    By exposing us to specific stimuli, Jason Silva can prime our brains to respond in certain ways. See how identical twins interview for the same job, in the same clothes, with the same resume. They even give the exact same answers-but the order of the words in their answers is slightly different. The result? One twin comes off negative, and the other gets the job. Would you believe that Texas seceded from the U.S. if a crazy-looking guy told you? Probably not, but what if a news reporter with a microphone did? This episode unveils the subtle tactics that advertisers, marketers and con men can use to get you to do what they want, without you noticing.

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    Director:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Pay Attention!
    8.2/10(143 votes)

    #2 - Pay Attention!

    S1:E2

    When it comes to mastering and manipulating attention, some of the world's leading experts aren't scientists; they're magicians like David Copperfield. While the brain's attention acts a bit like a spotlight to filter and make sense of a busy world, it can be easily controlled and deceived. Copperfield and a team of experts test, trick and fool using an elegant form of attention control.

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    Director:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Watch This!
    8.0/10(167 votes)

    #3 - Watch This!

    S1:E1

    Hack into the ultimate supercomputer ' the human brain ' as Hollywood filmmakers use color, light, motion, depth and sound to create mind-bending sensory illusions. Is it possible to feel the sensation of accidentally cutting your finger ' just by watching TV? Much of what we experience may be a mere fabrication, as our brains fill in gaps and stitch together a complete picture of the world bit-by-bit, designed to overcome our eyes' blind spots. But what happens when your senses get crossed?

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Focus Pocus

    S2:E1

    Think your field of vision is really in focus, or that your brain is focusing on everything happening in front of you? Think again. Brain Games reveal; the secrets behind the mysteries of focus and attention.

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    Director:Unknown
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  5. Background image for It's About Time
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - It's About Time

    S2:E2

    Ever wonder why a watched pot never boils? See how the brain can actually warp and shift time, giving a false impression of the order and the speed of events. Neuroscientist Dr. Chess Stetson explains the oddball effect using a series of pictures. Illusionist Apollo Robbins uses juggling pins to demonstrate what happens when the brain doesn't have enough time to process a large amount of information, while host Jason Silva plays with the speed of sound and light to find out why movies and television shows are sometimes out of sync.

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Motion Commotion
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Motion Commotion

    S2:E3

    This is a show about your brain and how it perceives motion. Evolving in a world that is constantly moving, the human brain had to develop a pretty sophisticated sense of motion in order to survive. This episode stops to ask some deceptively simple questions-What really is motion? Is the movement that you see real? Or is the wiring of your brain's motion detectors merely being fooled? We explore the science behind how your brain detects and interprets motion, and you'll see how easily this hard-wiring can be fooled... for better and for worse.

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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Don't Be Afraid

    S2:E4

    Our experts examine the brain's internal tug of war between fear and rationalization. Whether boarding an airplane or walking down a spooky street at night, we'll see how dread and anticipation build feelings of fear. Putting our host's emotions to the test, Apollo Robbins challenges Jason Silva to a game of Russian roulette. Then, with the help of John Harlacher, co-director of one of New York City's scariest haunted houses, we "Fear Factor" a group of volunteers. Without their senses of sight, sound, or control of their limbs, see how they react to snakes, cockroaches and rats... or so they think.

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for What You Don't Know
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - What You Don't Know

    S2:E6

    Bet you could explain something as basic as how a zipper works? Or correctly draw something as simple as a bicycle? If you said yes, you likely bet wrong... but don't worry it's not just you! When you stop and think about it, you're probably not that aware of all of the things you don't understand. The fact is we go through our daily lives feeling pretty confident in our knowledge and understanding of the world, but that confidence is mostly an illusion. In this episode of Brain Games, we'll show you firsthand just how the "illusion of knowledge" plagues the human brain and why we fall victim, again and again, to the notion that we understand more than we actually do.

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    Director:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Battle of the Sexes
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Battle of the Sexes

    S2:E7

    From the second you're born, you're a unique individual. You'll make choices about your friends, your career, your relationships, where you live, and how you dress. But one thing you don't get to choose is whether you were born a man or a woman - and that flip of the genetic coin will play a huge role in determining how you think about...well, almost everything. In this episode, we find out once and for all which gender's hard drive is wired better...for doing what.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Seeing is Believing

    S2:E8

    Seeing is believing, right? Not necessarily. It all depends on your perspective. In this episode of Brain Games, mind-bending illusions will show you the ways in which your visual perceptions can be surprisingly off.

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - You Decide

    S2:E9

    Every time you make a decision, your brain enters an often invisible battle between risk and reward. Through a series of addictive interactive games, surprising experiments, and relatable experts you'll learn astonishing facts about how you make decisions - and how to get better at making them.

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  13. Background image for Liar, Liar
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Liar, Liar

    S2:E12

    Host Jason Silva and deception specialist Apollo Robbins break down why we lie and what happens in the brain, even though science tells us that the truth is physiologically and neurologically easier.

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    7.9/10(34 votes)

    #13 - Perspective

    S6:E4

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    7.9/10(29 votes)

    #14 - Animal vs. Human

    S6:E5

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  16. Background image for The Survivor Brain
    7.9/10(19 votes)

    #15 - The Survivor Brain

    S7:E6

    Jason Silva meets several people in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who personify the word "survivor," and puts their brains to the test in a battery of challenges engineered to demonstrate what it takes to be a super survivor.

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    7.8/10(29 votes)

    #16 - Scams

    S6:E2

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  18. Background image for Brains Behaving Badly
    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #17 - Brains Behaving Badly

    S7:E3

    Host Jason Silva visits New Orleans, Louisiana, to explore the brain and bad behavior. A series of games and experiments demonstrate how the brain has an evolutionary predilection toward doing the wrong thing.

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    Director:Unknown
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    7.7/10(102 votes)

    #18 - Remember This!

    S1:E3

    With memory, things are not always as they seem: Details go missing, recollections change, and sometimes our brains fill in the blanks and create false visual memories. Our experts are on a mission to find out where memories reside in the brain by examining every millimeter for clues. Investigating every piece of the memory puzzle, from how we recognize faces even if they have been digitally distorted to how we can move memories from short-term to long-term storage.

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    7.5/10(29 votes)

    #19 - Positive Thinking

    S6:E1

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  21. Background image for Battle of the Ages
    7.4/10(56 votes)

    #20 - Battle of the Ages

    S3:E1

    While it's long been believed that both your body and your brain deteriorate over time, recent studies show that may not always be the case. Some brain functions improve as we get older, while others don’t fully develop until later in life. In this episode, we explore your brain and how it doesn’t always act its age. Through a series of games and experiments, you'll discover how your daily routines might be aging your brain, and how you can actually slow down the clock.

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    Director:Unknown
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  22. Background image for In Living Color
    7.3/10(80 votes)

    #21 - In Living Color

    S3:E2

    Think you understand the colors you see every day? Think an apple is actually red, or a leaf is really green? Think again. This episode of Brain Games puts your brain to the ultimate test with a series of interactive games and fascinating experiments that will reveal a shocking truth—color is just an illusion created by your brain. We'll show you how some colors can make you fly, reveal ghostly colors that don't actually exist, and if you play along you’ll see how color helps keep you alive.

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  23. Background image for Meet the Brain
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    #22 - Meet the Brain

    S7:E1

    A tour through the labyrinthine city of London; a metaphor for your brain and its numerous regions and intricate pathways.

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  24. Background image for Life of the Brain
    7.3/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Life of the Brain

    S7:E4

    Everyone's brain changes throughout life, expanding and contracting, shifting points of views, adjusting perspectives - you wake up every day with a brand new brain. Host Jason Silva heads to the New Jersey Shore to show how the mind's point of view shifts over a lifetime.

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    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #24 - Sleep

    S6:E3

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  26. Background image for Imagination
    7.2/10(25 votes)

    #25 - Imagination

    S6:E6

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Best Episodes Summary

"Power of Persuasion" is the best rated episode of "Brain Games". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/6/2013. This episode scored 0.8 points higher than the second highest rated, "Pay Attention!".